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Claresholm Local Press 1975-01-02 - 1977-06-30
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1976-03-18
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ICE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE CLARESHOLM AREA CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1926 Hospital Peery Services Under Review Abuse of the emergency services at the Claresholm General. Hospital was the subject of * considerable discussion at a recent joint meeting of the hospital board andthe medical staff. It was reported there has been a large increase in recent months in the number. of patients, seeking nan-emergency-medical attention at the hospital, rather than making an appointment at a physician's office. . + - As a result, a strain has been placed on hospital facilities which are designed matey, to treat emergency cases. tr-an-effort to.curb unnecessary out-patient visits to the hospital, the Claresholm Medical Associates has instituted a new fee schedule. Effective immediately, patients who require to see the doctor on emergency call between the hours of 10'p.m. and 9 a.m. will be subject to a minimum charge of- 25 if the doctor considers the visit to be a non-emergency. This ts payable to the physician at the time he sees the VOLUME 52 NUMBER 12 PRICE: 15 CLARESHOLM, ALBERTA, CANADA THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1976 Largest-Ever Surplus The-largest-ever surplus of funds in the town s history was recorded in 1975 when the town s financial statement was adopted by town council Monday evening. The figure was set at 121,548.82. The town s actual operations showed total revenues of 1,106,165:68 and total Share Profits A total of 53,400 in profit sharing revenue was distributed among employ- * ees across-Canada of Trus-Joist Western Ltd. when the company entertained their employees at the Flying N Thursday Claresholm plant manager, was present; evening, March 11. The occasion was ed Trus-Joist s plant manager of the year Trus-Joist s eighth annual pension and award for 1975, exemplifying the profit sharing dinner. . milestone year the plant enjoyed. Out of town guests in attendance Frank Keller, plant production included Trus-Joist President, Peter foreman, was also presented an award for Johnson; manager of manufacturing his five years continuous employment services, Walt Minnick; Canadian divi- with the firm. sion manager, Roy Downing;. and Coffee and cake was served after the Canadian regional sales managers, meeting adjourned celebrating the larg- lt; Hackett and Marvin Guenter. est pension and profit sharing certificates social hour and smorgasbord eyer presented to Trus-Joist s Claresholm vrccnodal the distribution of the pension plant employees. Wis: and profit sharing certificates by Pesident expenditures of 968,909.08. The actual surplus was 137,256.60, but a 15,- 707.78 deficit was incurred by the water department and this amount deducted from the actual total. * See Mayor's Comments Page 3 Johnson. Johnson paid tribute to the employees for their efforts in making the Claresholm plant the most successful of all Trus-Joist plants in 1975. Ben Bopp, PS nee the roof and charred interior was averted in the downtown area the result as these pictures show, early last Thursday morning, There was an extremely high when flames badly damaged the Wind blowing at the time, and , rear, portion of the Cannan firemen were concerned.the whole Cvccccccccccocccccces Your World . Plumbing building. The fire is area could be engulfed, The This Week believed to have been caused by ) RCMP were alerted at approx. eeecccccccccvccceseees in overhead heater in the imately 2:30 a.m. and turned in - structure and by the time firemen the alarm quelled the blaze a oping hole if E Barley Growers Meet A meeting of malt-barley growers of the district is /. gplanned).to.,.be,held 1pe, Blunden.) Memorial: Hall, Granum, Monday, Mare Ti - The meeting is being called to discuds premiums The Canadian-Red Cross So- paid to malt barley growers by the Canadian Wheat ciety: sies passen site armey OL Board. A dispute over this payment has resulted, in See uate Lichter legalaction by Herb and Walter Riske of High River, ; tions have exceeded 520,000. and it is hoped to have their counsel: attend the The toll of casualties in the meeting. Central: American. republic was Other legal experts, grain company representa- tives and others are expected to attend. close to 22,000 dead, 65,000 Crash Kills 3 People injured and more than a million homeless. Three people died ind one in 62, of Bentley. Denise Wilson, 46, critical condition in Foothills was flown to Foothills Hospital by A major fire was narrowly Photo by Hugh Ashford Canadians are invited to apply Local Press photos for places on a 500-member relay team that will carry the Olympic flame from Ottawa to Montreal and Kingston for the Summer Games. The flame will be carried by 500 male and female-runters. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mulroney, Montreal, have a second child, a sor The birth of the child had patient, anda portion of the fee may be recovered from Alberta Health Care Insurance. At the present time the hospital treats more than emergency 300 patients. each month in department. The Tor aid Andy Anderson Well, you see, it starts this way. In the beginning, everyone was a good guy , Sure, everyone was in agreement the town works department needed extra vehicles to replace and augment its transportation force. They were so much in agreement Councillor Esper Espersen and Town Engin- eer Ron Hazelaar were authorized to make a trip to Edmonton to inspect vehicles available as surplus from the provincial government. he The two men carried out their orders and at the Monday, February 19, 1976 meeting of town council, dutifully reported their findings. The trucks they saw, they said, were quite suitable for the town s needs and the purchase of two vehicles was been tentatively expected Feb- the day the Progressive atives convention chose Joe Clark as new leader of the party Hospital following an accident on Highway 2 near Stav early Friday evening, Mare Dead ar Robert Wilson, 49, of Sparwood, BC;. Alberta Hansen, 67. of Bentley: and Helga Hitnsen, helicopter. Claresholm RCMP report the accident occurred on icy roads when a northbound truck hauling a travel trailer jack knifed Mto the south lane Roy D. Jim Kuhl while Mrs. Kuhi authorized. But, lo and behold, at this juncture the lines of communica- tion become rather vague .and somewhat garbled, because when the vehicles arrive in Claresholm they are now four in number. (Now, that s not entirely correct, there were really five trucks one was purchased for the Willow Creek School Division). But there were four purchased in the name of the town. Now, the plot thickens. Purchased in the name of the town. That's important. Because they were the property of the provincial government they could only be purchased by another government. Perhaps it is because. of: the garbled communications at this particular juncture that this melodrama reaches the point where there are two sides the good guys and the bad guys. No one seems to know just how two trucks suddenly Brey as four trucks. 32 5 But an informal patheniee of council members is called ,on Saturday, February 21. It's informal to the point there were no minutes kept -and since no council members claimed their bounty for attendance, how informal can you get? But our eavesdroppers tell us the consensus among the coun- cillors everyone was there, they also tell us was that it was an error in purchasing and since one of the terms of purchase was that there could be no return of the merchandise, the only honorable course was to absorb the extra two vehicles into the town s fleet. .. the possibility e Now, at this pulse-stopping point of time, it should behoove everyoneto expect the end of the story to read they drove off into ..the sunset and everyone lived happily everafter. But that s not the way this scenatio goes. Not by a long shot. There are rumors there are some real blue bloods lurking in the background who smell the odor of a full-fledged Watergate affair. Who knows; perhaps a whole fleet (navy?) of trucks could have been purchased, resold and literally millions realized? The fact-the vast-majority of council members were aware this could be a possibility and reacted almost immediately is now a minor part of the plot. There are rumblingsandgrumb- .- lings the entire council may be inwolved in court actions. (There have been revisions to the Municipal Government Act since Mayor Patterson-was ambushed some time.ago, but, nevertheless, ts they could be-all liable to fines if they were judged to have acted in other than the best interests of the town that is if someone (singular or plural?) wanted to. press the matter to any degree.-. - So, town council gathered in happy session this past Monday evening. . Happy is used looks on. With back to camera Is President Pp Tale Of Two (Or Four, Five?) Trucks oie After all, when you accept an annual financial state- ment listing the largest surplus ever for a past year s operations don't you have see grounds to be happy ? Well, maybe it was 50-50. After the glow of the surplus had worn off those pesky trucks came up again. Well, council did formally without a dissent- authorize-the * purchase of two more, at a total price of 1,400. That's 700 each, the same price as for the, first two so the purchase doesn t have to be examined by the Anti Inflation Board. But we have to backtrack here. At last Monday's March 8) meeting, the disbursements in- cluded the payment for the two extra trucks and Councillor Don Johnstone is quite explicit in his contention he was convinced the adoption of that financial statement was approval in principle of the purchase. But, then, Councillor John- stone is conditioned: to making snap decisions in the everyday market place and can be excused for being annoyed at the. per- ambulations of bureaucratic pro- cedures. Councillor Harry Seymour goes on record as supporting the purchase but questions the need r Johnson. for the additional units. And Councillor Stan Stoklosa runs true to form in wanting to bring the matter to a close at least for the time being because -he moved the motion to purchase, Mayor Ernie Patterson doesn t project anything but doom and gloom over the whole affair: But you get the distinct feeling it has been a long time since the mayor has been involved in a Shootout at the OK Corral or even at High Noon and he s really just polishing up his shooting irons And practicing quick draws. And so the trucks are now all officially the property of the Town of Claresholm and you can r st assured they'll be used or else At this point we'd like-to make a suggestion: If there is any chance these trucks cannot be utilized to their fullest extent, why not re-institute an ambu- lance service operated by the town council? After all, trucks have previous- ly been purchased for the same purpose. In fact, Monday night's financial statement indicated there was. yet one more year to pay for the mow abandoned ambula: * Y axpayers it s. happen- ing right here in River City Stay tuned.
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